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[Allegheny]

@Group 5 minus 1  Is your Generac powered by natural gas?

[sophiamarie]

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@ncascade wrote:

Because we have a well and a pump. Many people will flush by setting aside many buckets of water. With our generator we are ok. It is a whole house one that comes on when the power goes off. We are frugal with how we use it but we are still ok.

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@Group 5 minus 1   I may be missing something here but we have a Generac (whole house) generator and I don't know how you can be "frugal" with it.  The generator waits about 20 seconds after the power goes off and then it starts up and the whole house is "on" again.  Everything.   Every Sunday at 1 pm (because my husband set it that way) it powers up for about 12 minutes just to make sure everything is ok.

I live in Florida and we have many power failures.  It's just one less thing to worry about when/if there is a hurricane.  At least, the food stays cold, we have ice to give to neighbors and there is no interruption in our lives.

[Group 5 minus 1]

Allegheny: No our generator is powered by propane.

[Group 5 minus 1]

Sophia: We do not use electricity in one of our family rooms. Also I do not do laundry. We ran the dishwasher once,then we used paper dishes. Little things like that.

[sophiamarie]

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@ncascade wrote:

Sophia: We do not use electricity in one of our family rooms. Also I do not do laundry. We ran the dishwasher once,then we used paper dishes. Little things like that.

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@Group 5 minus 1  Ok - I undertand now.  Our house is all electric but we have natural gas in our area, so we had a gas line put it.  That way, we don't have to worry about running out.  I have a friend about 3 miles away who also has a propane tank in her yard.  She is so jealous that we have gas and she doesn't.  

Between  you and me, we use a lot of paper plates even though we have electricity.  LOL  So much easier.  Isn't it great to have a generator?  I think it's probably the best investment we ever made.